Rock warrior Thor to unleash his heavy metal 'Thunder on the Tundra' at Phat Headz

Jon Mikl Thor, the former bodybuilding champ whose heavy metal career took off when he performed on "The Merv Griffin ...more

Jon Mikl Thor, the former bodybuilding champ whose heavy metal career took off when he performed on "The Merv Griffin Show" in 1976, is still out on the road flexing his muscles as the frontman of the band Thor. He'll hit the stage at Phat Headz on Oct. 21.

Jon Mikl Thor, the Canadian bodybuilding champ turned heavy metal rock star and B horror movie actor in the ’70s and ’80s, will bring the thunder of his band Thor to Phat Headz on Oct. 21.

The self-proclaimed “rock warrior,” known for pulling off such crazy onstage stunts as having bricks broken against his chest with a sledgehammer and blowing up hot water bottles until they exploded, retired his band in the mid-’80s after suffering a nervous breakdown. But proving you can’t keep a strongman down, he resurrected Thor a decade later. Now in his early 60s, he continues to strap on the armor and studs to tour with songs like “Thunder on the Tundra.”

More concert news

» There's no telling what you'll hear when Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox takes the stage at the Meyer Theatre on Feb. 7. It could be a swing version of the theme from "The Flintstones," a slow-burn vintage blues take on Cheap Trick's "I Want You to Want Me" or Hanson's "MMMBop" done as doo-wop.

The music collective reinterprets cover songs by everybody from The Cars and Lady Gaga to Maroon 5 and Radiohead. Its doo-wop version of Miley Cyrus' "We Can't Stop" famously went viral in 2015, racking up 19 million views.

Tickets are $45 and $35, with a limited number of VIP seats at $162 and and $112. They go on sale at 11 a.m. Friday at ticketstaronline.com, (800) 895-0071 and the Resch Center box office.

» Rock band Trapt is going out on the road to play acoustic shows, including one on Dec. 21 at Sword & Velvet with Red Light Saints and Pale Grey Sky. Tickets are on sale at eventbrite.com for $22.

» Country duo LoCash will unleash its hits “I Love This Life “ and “I Know Somebody” on a Green Bay Distillery crowd on Dec. 7. Tickets are on sale for $26.25 at eventbrite.com; $5 more day of. Jaid Johnson will open.

Country duo LoCash will be in concert Dec. 7 at Green Bay Distillery.

Country duo LoCash will be in concert Dec. 7 at Green Bay Distillery.

Courtesy of Bananas Entertainment and National Event Promotions

Hometown darlings return

It’s become an annual tradition for country duo Manditori to come back home from Nashville to play a benefit for Happily Ever After Animal Sanctuary, but this year they’ll do it with a new name at a new venue.

Now called Yankee Darlings (and both recently married), 2012 Bay Port High School graduates Mandi Anderson and Tori Moussaed will return for a holiday concert Dec. 8 at the Ashwaubenon Performing Arts Center, a change from the Meyer Theatre in years past. Tickets are $25 and on sale through Ticket Star or HEA’s Green Bay Adoption Center, 2255 Fox Heights Lane in Ashwaubenon.

Etc.

» Comedian Ralphie May, who died of cardiac arrest Friday at age 45, had played the Meyer Theatre a couple of times, including most recently in December for his “White Trash Christmas” show.

» Comedian Bill Burr’s performance on Nov. 5 at the Meyer is sold out.

» Tickets went on sale this week for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” opening Dec. 14 at Bay Park Cinema and Green Bay East Cinema. They’re available at marcustheatres.com and the box office.

» It's last call if you want to see "The 60 Yard Line" on the big screen. The Packers romantic comedy ends its five-week run today at Green Bay East with showings at 11:45 a.m., 2:10 p.m. and 4:35 p.m.

» Eminem name-drops the Packers in his new freestyle rap against President Donald Trump. In the 4½-minute video for “The Storm,” which was played at the BET Hip Hop Awards on Tuesday, Eminem raps: “But this is his form of distraction/Plus, he gets an enormous reaction/When he attacks the NFL so we focus on that/Instead of talking Puerto Rico or gun reform for Nevada/All these horrible tragedies and he's bored and would rather/Cause a Twitter storm with the Packers.”